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Lord Lovat.
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DRAFT.
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30081/27 Hong Kong.
Confidential.
Sir,
Ansund 103
52799/28
Downing Street
14 Feb. 1928.
I am etc. to transmit to you,
to be laid before Sec. Sir Austen
Chamberlain, a copy of a despatch from
Acting
the/Govr. of Hong Kong, in which he .
discusses the general question of
recruitment in Hong Kong of Chinese
labour for service abroad. The
discussion has arisen out of applications
to recruit Chinese labour in Hong Kong
for service in Sarawak and Dutch East
Borneo.
2. As Sir Austen Chamberlain is
no doubt aware, the Cabinet decided on
the 29th June that, from the political
point of view, it was impossible to
acquiesce in a proposal to introduce
Chinese labourers into the New Hebrides.
It